2 # Detect printf(3) failure even when it doesn't set stream error indicator
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21 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
27 # Up to coreutils-6.9, "printf %.Nf 0" would encounter an ENOMEM internal
28 # error from glibc's printf(3) function whenever N was large relative to
29 # the size of available memory. As of Oct 2007, that internal stream-
30 # related failure was not reflected (for any libc I know of) in the usual
31 # stream error indicator that is tested by ferror. The result was that
32 # while the printf command obviously failed (generated no output),
33 # it mistakenly exited successfully (exit status of 0).
35 # Testing it is tricky, because there is so much variance
36 # in quality for this corner of printf(3) implementations.
37 # Most implementations do attempt to allocate N bytes of storage.
38 # Using the maximum value for N (2^31-1) causes glibc-2.7 to try to
39 # allocate almost 2^64 bytes, while freeBSD 6.1's implementation
40 # correctly outputs almost 2GB worth of 0's, which takes too long.
41 # We want to test implementations that allocate N bytes, but without
42 # triggering the above extremes.
44 # Some other versions of glibc-2.7 have a snprintf function that segfaults
45 # when an internal (technically unnecessary!) memory allocation fails.
47 # The compromise is to limit virtual memory to something reasonable,
48 # and to make an N-byte-allocating-printf require more than that, thus
49 # triggering the printf(3) misbehavior -- which, btw, is required by ISO C99.
53 # Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, to avoid triggering this bug
54 # http://bugs.debian.org/481543#77
55 export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0
57 head -c 10 fifo > out &
59 # Choosing the virtual memory limit, 11000 is enough, but 10000 is too
60 # little and provokes a "memory exhausted" diagnostic on FreeBSD 9.0-p3.
61 ( ulimit -v 15000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo )
64 # Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one.
65 # printf: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" \
66 sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err-msg > k && mv k err-msg
67 err_msg=$(cat err-msg|tr '\n' :)
69 # By some bug, on Solaris 11 (5.11 snv_86), err_msg ends up
70 # containing '1> fifo:printf: write error:'. Recognize that, too.
73 "$prog: write error:"*) diagnostic=y ;;
74 "1> fifo:$prog: write error:") diagnostic=y ;;
76 *) diagnostic=unexpected ;;
80 case $n_out:$diagnostic:$exit in
81 10:n:0) ;; # ok, succeeds w/no diagnostic: FreeBSD 6.1
82 0:y:1) ;; # ok, glibc-2.8 and newer, when printf(3) fails with ENOMEM
84 # With MALLOC_PERTURB_=0, this no longer happens.
85 # *:139) # segfault; known bug at least in debian unstable's libc6 2.7-11
86 # echo 1>&2 "$0: bug in snprintf causes low-mem use of printf to segfault"
89 # 10:y) ;; # Fail: doesn't happen: nobody succeeds with a diagnostic
90 # 0:n) ;; # Fail pre-patch: no output, no diag